Selections from the Exhibition

Re-make / Re-model

The Metal Museum’s 30th anniversary year concludes with an invitational show in which we ask artists to help us reexamine our permanent collection with fresh eyes.  For Re-make / Re-model we've invited old and new friends of the museum to choose a favorite object from our collection and create a new work in the spirit of that piece.  As the works are viewed side-by-side, relationships emerge between old and new, tradition and innovation, history and form.  These connections invigorate our historic collection and offer context for the present.

Artists include Richard Prillaman, Helen Shirk, Richard Carr, Dolph Smith, Jack DaSilva, Marilyn DaSilva, Tom Latane, Stephen Yusko, Jeff Clancy, Holly Fisher, Alice James, Sarah Perkins, Emiko Oye, Jim Masterson, Chris Winterstein, Phillip Baldwin, James Malenda, Bob Marsh, and Andy Dohner.

Above: Helen Shirk's Split Rock, inspired by Tom Joyce's Cast Iron Form.

Above, a wood and iron box from our permanent collection and samples of work from Sarah Perkins which demonstrate her thought process as she takes inspiration from its pattern, intensive hand-work, and "the directness of nailing metal into wood."